Silverware-cleaner



Patented Feb. 1, 1921..

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OFFICE.

JERRY REIGES, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

SILVERWARE-CLEANER.

Application filed. flctober 13, 1919.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JERRY Barons, a citizen of the United States,residing at lVorces ter, county of Vvorcester, and State ofMassachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inSilverware-Gleam ers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in silver ware cleaners, andparticularly to that class of such devices in which the knives, spoonsor forks are cleaned between two elastic cleaning aws.

It is the principal object of the invention to provide a cleaner ofsimple and mor pensive construction in which the described. operationsmay be performed in the least possible time and with the least possibleexpenditurc of labor.

lVith this and other objects in view, the invention consists in animproved silver ware cleaner of this class, the constructionarrangement, and combination of the parts of which will be hereinaftermore fully described and afterward specifically set forth in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing- Figure 1 is a front view of the device constructed according to the present invention, parts being broken away.

Fig. 2 is a side view thereof partly in section on line 2--2 of Fig. 1.

Like numerals mark the same parts in all. the figures of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 10 indicatesthe frame of thedevice secured in a handle 11. l-lookshaped guides 12, 12 are providedat both sides of the frame for tension springs 13 and 13 resting uponthe bar M of the frame.

The guides swing at a distance above said bar 14.

To these guides are secured an upper stationary arcuate jaw 15, and alower arcuate movable jaw 16 supported by the upper end of said springs13. The lower jaw 16 can be depressed by the intermediary of a handlelever 1T, secured to the uprights of the frame .10 between the hookguides 12 and the side of the frame 10. The rectangularly cent ends ofthis lever are disposed in front of the device to form a loop by thedepression of which toward the handle 11 against the tension of springs13, the lower jaw can execute 3. limited downward motion for allowingthe introduction of a knife or fork to be cleaned between both jawswhich for this Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 1, 1921.

Serial. No. 330,335.

purpose may be covered with felt or any other suitable material. I

Above the upper jaw a holder or frame 18 is secured in the frame 10,upon the lower bar of which the ends of three or more strong U shapedleaf springs 19, 20, and 21 are resting, encircled by coil springs 22,23 an d 24.

Felt or similar coverings 25, 26 and 27 cover the springs so that spoonsmay be inserted between the springs and cleaned as will. readily beunderstood.

The bottom bar of the frame 18 is made in two parts, one of which isprovided with a plurality of holes 28, while the other 29 is hook-shapedand adapted to enter these holes, thusallowing an adjustment of thespring tenslon.

In operation, the knives and forks to be cleaned are introduced betweenthe two covcred jaws by slightly depressing the lower jaw by means ofthe handle lever 17, and manually giving the knives or forks areciprocating motion.

Spoons a re placed between the U-shaped curved springs, larger spoonsbetween the two upper springs, and smaller between the two lowersprings.

What I claim is 'l. in a silver ware cleaner of the character described,the combination of means for scouring knives with a frame, a handle forsaid frame, a holder on said frame, a plurality of U-shapcd leaf springssecured with their lower ends in said holder, coiled springs encirclingsaid U-springs, a covering for said coiled springs and means forallowing an adjustment of the tension of said springs.

2. In a silver ware cleaner of the character described, the combinationof means for scouring knives with a frame, a handle for said frame, aholder on said frame, a plurality of Ushaped leaf springs secured withtheir lower ends in said holder, coiled springs encircling said U-springs, a felt covering for said coiled springs, and a bipartitebottom bar on said holder, one of the parts of said bar provided with aplurality of slots and a hook at the end of the second part of said baradapted to engage the said holes for allowing an adjustment of thespring tension.

In testimony whereof I have aliixed my signature.

JERRY REIGES.

